Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RENEWAL, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON



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First Line: Hope is renewed in foolish hearts like mine
Last Line: Why in my sullen heart is hope renewed?
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hope; Optimism


HOPE is renewed in foolish hearts like mine...
The leaves of black ailanthus trees, close-pent
In some dim alley of a tenement
Renew themselves, because the sun will shine
One hour upon them out of all the day.
I, for the sake of you, will take more care
What song I sing, perhaps, what gown I wear—
(You long departed, and so far away!)

Hope—What is hope? The search that cannot end—
The crack in prison-walls that will not yield—
The garnered green of some remembered field—
In famine days the one last coin to spend—
The wind that makes a deep disquietude...
Why in my sullen heart is hope renewed?





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